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I’m not sure war is something I feel comfortable talking about, not even here, in written form, through the lens of reviewing a movie about war. Not completely comfortable with anyways. We haven’t reviewed many war movies in the 5 years we’ve been doing GOO Reviews, and up until now I’m not even sure I’ve ever really watched a war movie all the way through. At least not ones that didn’t also have the words ‘Star’, ‘Inglourious’, or ‘The First Avenger’ in their titles. I have a feeling those ones don’t really count.

As a millennial, war isn’t one of those things I’ve ever had to seriously consider as a component of life, not in the enlistment or conscription sense at any rate, and my most vivid memories of the topic of war are reviewing the numbers of dead due to wars in textbooks for the purposes of passing tests. Continue reading →

I’m not sure I fully understand why people like Batman so much, because I don’t think the Batman most people like is the same Batman that I like. My Batman is less a [Bat]man but a [Bat]god, the ultimate human, the first human superhero, and the kind of hero that never once makes you question his value among a pantheon of god-like superbeings. The kind of superhero that can bring down an alien overman. The kind of superhero so resilent that he’s endured the campiest of the ‘60s and the darkest of the ‘80s. The kind of superhero who can defeat three Martians at once and on his own, Martians that had beaten the entire Justice League, by being the first to discover their one weakness. He’s there because he’s the Dark Knight Detective, the smartest one in the room even when that room contains people who were gifted with intelligence as a superpowers.

My apologies to Matt Damon

There are a lot of stories surrounding Interstellar, mostly because of director Christopher Nolan. There are stories about the technical detail Nolan displays in the film’s direction and in its science; there are stories about the film’s place in the pantheon of Nolan’s almost universally well-received movies; and there are stories about Interstellar being Nolan’s most ambitious film yet. But mostly the biggest story seems to be that Interstellar sucks. And that it got beaten at the weekend box office by a Disney movie.

If you didn’t see Interstellar this past weekend, that wouldn’t be a huge surprise. Interstellar’s opening was obviously never going to compare to Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy $100 million plus openings (because no Batman), but even compared to Nolan’s overtly intellectual Inception, Interstellar pulled in about $15 million fewer dollars. Continue reading →